Qualla: Battle of Harlaw https://qualla.com/battle-of-harlaw en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/q/battle-of-harlaw-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Harlaw https://qualla.com/battle-of-harlaw Battle of Harlaw: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-harlaw/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Donald, Lord of the Isles, marched east in the summer of 1411 with a claim, a grievance, and roughly ten thousand men. The claim was to the Earldom of Ross, which his wife's family rightly held. The grievance was that the Regent of Scotland, Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, had quietly handed the title to his own son. The men were Islanders and Highlanders, Gaels carrying spear and axe down from the western seaboard toward the rich grain country of the Garioch. On 23 July, Donald set up camp on high ground just north of Inverurie, within twenty miles of Aberdeen's burgh. The next morning, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, came up to meet him with the knighthood of the northeast - the Provost of Aberdeen, the city's burgesses, armoured men on armoured horses - and the day that followed was so bloody that Scots remembered it forever after as Red Harlaw.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/q/battle-of-harlaw-wp/gfnq-battle-of-harlaw-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Harlaw: A Title Worth Killing For https://qualla.com/battle-of-harlaw/ Photo credit anonymous, Public domain. The Earldom of Ross stretched from Skye to Inverness-shire, a vast inheritance that should have descended through the female line by a charter King David II had granted in 1370. When the last Earl's son Alexander Leslie died, leaving only a sickly daughter Euphemia, the line of s...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/q/battle-of-harlaw-wp/gfnq-battle-of-harlaw-a-title-worth-killing-for.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Harlaw: March Through the Highlands https://qualla.com/battle-of-harlaw/ Photo credit anonymous, Public domain. Donald moved fast. He met the Mackays of Strathnaver at Dingwall, seat of the Earls of Ross, and beat them there in a sharp fight. He captured Dingwall Castle, garrisoned it, and pushed east, his men committing what the chroniclers called great excesses along the way. By July he ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/q/battle-of-harlaw-wp/gfnq-battle-of-harlaw-march-through-the-highlands.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Harlaw: Red Harlaw https://qualla.com/battle-of-harlaw/ Photo credit anonymous, Public domain. The armies met on 24 July 1411 on the open ground at Harlaw, two miles northwest of Inverurie. Mar's host was small - perhaps one or two thousand against Donald's reported ten - but it was heavily armoured. Sir Gilbert de Greenlaw, whose tombstone survives in Kinkell Church, foug...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/q/battle-of-harlaw-wp/gfnq-battle-of-harlaw-red-harlaw.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Harlaw: Battlefield Today https://qualla.com/battle-of-harlaw/ Photo credit anonymous, Public domain. Tradition says Mar founded the Chapel of Garioch after the battle, to have masses sung for the souls of the fallen. Several cairns once marked the ground - Drum's Cairn, Provost Davidson's Cairn, Donald's Tomb, the Liggars Stane - though little remains of them now. In 1837, twelv...

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